Man loses benefits because he had heart attack during work capability assessment

A man with heart problems who couldn’t complete a work capability assessment because he had a heart attack during the interview had his benefits stopped by the job centre for ‘withdrawing’ from the interview.

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Excellent item from Pride’s Purge. I think when I get around to categorizing the different subjects on this blog this one will have to go in the ‘You Couldn’t Make it Up’ category’.

At the risk of repeating myself …. this absolutely beggars belief! I’ve reposted the link on my facebook page with the following comment “Are you sheeple or people? Vote this f**ckers out at the next election. Why? because this could happen to you!”

I think that Poe’s Law these days has come more generally to mean anything that can’t been identified as satire because it could be real, extremism or not! Just like the UK Government. Another reason I ran away to New Zealand!

I to am not shocked I should be but lets just say de sensatisation properganda in full force . But is it wrong 1001% what society will our children friends ect grow up in if this dose become the norm . ??? Not one i wish to be apart of . gross

I got my fit for work letter today ive claimed ESA for less than 20wks my white cells are abnormal they rushed me through atos quicker than NHS test what employer will take me on six months to live ????? more blood tezts ect while as a single mum applying for jobs ect Im sure the pure stress will do me wonders x

your not thick hun its me being sarcastic ..lol how long or what ive got still on going ..like my friend i survived treatment in 2007.reason for ESA claim was ongoing tests but yes today im fit for work same day white blood cells abnormal .

debs
oh,i get what you mean….atos miracles…a surreal sideshow of benefit games…now you see them now you don’t, eventually one ceases to be shocked and a numb desensitisation takes over…our vitals of life in their hands…

Mt wife has blood cancer I cannot believe what this government is doing and most people are unaware of this they want to make out all people on sick benefit are scroungers I do hope your condition goes into remission

thankyou Anthony.
If I’d of known back in the day I would of take out a life cover insurence although it would of been a struggle but to pull the rug from under people last minute when there isnt a thing you can do about it is almost criminal .
Having to sign on look for work go to interwiews while attending blood test doctor appointments hospital appointments as well as care for my young child and being tierd all the time is an extreme situation that Im praying I can find the strength for.

It’s all very well complaining about how unfair and immoral this Work Capability Assessment system is, and all caring people will agree, but does anyone have any idea about how to get rid it? Voting Labour isn’t going to help, because they introduced it. Obviously voting Tory or Lib Dem isn’t. So what’s left?

This is getting worse! IDS has been recalled for more questions on Monday 3rd February but he’ll get away with it again. The man should be hung, drawn and quartered – but if not, he should be sacked!
I don’t know how the Atos demonstrations will go later this month but the one thing that we can do is keep on writing to him and to MP’s and Lords.
One thing I do know is that none of my facebook friends are interested any more – that disgusts me and I’ll be closing the stupid account soon. I cannot understand how so called friends can turn away from the messages and the petitions when they know just how I am with my disabilities – they have seen the daily struggles myself and my husband go through each and every day yet all they care about is themselves. They know damn well that it could be them today or tomorrow in the same situation, but they close their eyes to it! Sickening!

OBD – I think you’re right that if the whole medical profession was united about this then the government might listen (though I wouldn’t stake my life on it!). But I’m afraid they are not united, because if they were then I think they would have done something already.

I have no answers to this… other than move to Scotland. By the way, did you know that the devolved Scottish Parliament is going to ask Westminster for the powers to repeal the bedroom tax in Scotland? Westminster will say f*ck off, but at least they’re trying. In the long term my faint hope is that an independent Scotland can show the rest of the UK the way to go.

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More evidence that this government is a sick travesty, just as IDS and the DWP are shabby caricatures of human beings. It’s no point asking how low they can go, as just when you think they really, really can’t go any further, they go just that little bit deeper beyond any semblance of humanity or rationality or even basic decency …

I used to live in England, and I’m convinced that on average the people up here just have their heads screwed on better! It’s clearly reflected in how they vote. Also, if there’s something which has to be done, they just roll up their sleeves and get on with it. I don’t know why there’s such a difference between England and Scotland, but there is.

labour also opened 90 odd remploy factories which enabled disabled people to live independently, look at who shut them all down, thus causing a lot of hardship!! I’ll give you a clue: It wasn’t Labour!

I’ll quote a friend who I think knows what he’s talking about – “There are just more w@nkers down south”. Not as poetic as Burns, but still true!

Something significant changes over the border, and like you I really don’t know what ‘it’ is. The political, moral and practical differences are plain to see for someone like me who moved during adulthood. Unless you have seen the differences for yourself then maybe you can’t understand it. Of course not everything is good, far from it, but I have a fundamental confidence in the people of this country which I NEVER had in England.

Joanna – Are you kidding??? The Remploy closures began in 2007! 30 were closed in 2008 under a LABOUR government, throwing 2,500 disabled people out of work! This current government has only carried what the Blair government started.

I grow my own tatties and much more besides. I go fishing (including on Sundays) and I eat what I catch. You should try my smoked trout! I burn wood grown on my own land to heat my house. I support my local economy and Scotland as a whole. I’m sure most Scots would call me English, but I feel something about this country and this people which I never felt in England.

@ FinkFurst I’ve not forgotten who introduced it; but introducing something is not the same as implementing it to such a degree that people who go through the process and who are already poorly suffer in this way and in some cases (according to DWP own findings) die as a result.